Seamus Heaney
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Read MoreBook Review: Armor and Blood
/The Battle of Kursk was one of the most epic confrontations in the history of warfare - a vivid new history calls it the turning point of the entire Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: I'd Know You Anywhere, My Love
/No matter how an imaginative child might shape-shift, a mother's love follows right along in Nancy Tillman's enchanting new picture book
Read MoreBook Review: Planet Without Apes
/More than at any point in their collective history, mankind's great ape cousins face the threat of total extinction. A passionate new book outlines all the threats - and clings to some hope
Read MoreBook Review: Trash Animals
/Rats, snakes, gulls, cockroaches, and half a dozen other notorious varmints - a delightful new anthology takes readers deep inside the world of the animals they love to hate
Read MoreIn Paperback: Life in a Shell
/A new paperback explores the mysteries of turtles
Read MoreBook Review: Year's Best Science Fiction
/The powerhouse annual science fiction anthology series turns thirty with a new collection drawn from all the sci-fi periodicals of the English-speaking world
Read MoreBook Review: The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht
/The great 20th century poet Anthony Hecht was also a charming and indefatigable letter-writer. A new volume does its best to capture the range and wit that captivated two generations of correspondents.
Read MoreIn Theaters: City of Bones
/Cassandra Clare's phenomenally popular novel about a young woman who learns she's a born demon-hunter comes at last to the big screen
Read MoreBook Review: The Letters of T. S. Eliot
/The exhaustive Yale edition of the complete correspondence of T. S. Eliot reaches a very busy period in the life of Eliot the editor and businessman, working away at the center of a vast and fascinating literary world
Read MoreBook Review: Benjamin Britten - A Life For Music
/The great - and problematic - 20th century composer gets a broad-minded and intensely sensitive new biography
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Thoreau's Essays
/"In the winter, I stop short in the path to admire how the trees grow up without forethought, regardless of time and circumstances. They do not wait as man does ..." A beautiful new edition of Henry David Thoreau's essays.
Read MoreBook Review: Extra Sensory
/The long-rumored psychic powers of the human brain get a high-spirited new examination.
Read MoreBook Review: Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
/A crucial turning-point battle in the American Revolution is given an extensively detailed and tradition-challenging new history
Read MoreBook Review: The Warbler Guide
/Roger Tory Peterson called them "the butterflies of the bird world" - they're wood warblers, and when it comes to identifying and understanding them, Princeton University Press has published the Bible
Read MoreAugust 2013 Issue
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Read MoreBook Review: The White Princess
/"The Cousins' War" - Philippa Gregory's ongoing novelization of the Wars of the Roses - reaches an epic turning point in her latest book, about the precarious founding of the Tudor dynasty
Read MoreBook Review: The Men Who Lost America
/Clinton, Gage, Burgoyne, the Howe brothers - and of course Lord Cornwallis: their names are synonymous in the United States with bumbling defeat, but a rousing new book takes a fresh look at all these formerly infamous figures
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Wolverine
/Hugh Jackman reprises his beloved role as the X-Men's hairy clawed Canadian killer, Wolverine
Read MoreBook Review: The Anglo-Saxon World
/A wonderfully-illutrated new volume brings together the latest research about the glittering era that brought us the Sutton Hoo treasure, the epic of Beowulf, and the deep sediment of law
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